maigre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French maigre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ɡə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪ.ɡɚ/

Adjective

maigre (not comparable)

1. (cooking) Made without meat (and thus permitted to be eaten on a fast day).
2. Belonging to a fast day or fast.

Noun

maigre (plural maigres)

1. A kind of fish; the meagre.

Anagrams

• Margie, gamier, imager, mirage

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French

Etymology

From Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macrum, accusative of macer, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱros. The variant dialectal form maire is the normal phonetic result; the main form with -gr- was perhaps influenced by analogy with aigre, or may be semi-learned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛɡʁ/

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Adjective

maigre (plural maigres)

1. meagre, skinny
2. lean, thin

Related terms

• amaigrir
• maigrement
• maigreur
• maigrir

Noun

maigre m (plural maigres)

1. meagre (fish)

Further reading

• “maigre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• émigra
• gémira
• germai
• mirage

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French megre, meigre, from Latin macer, macrum.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

maigre m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) thin

Derived terms

• maigrir (“to lose weight”)